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Only if flying from Toronto. No pre-boarding beer from Ottawa. I like Porter. But it does kinda suck when coming back from out west, we always get routed back through Toronto at night.

Sure. But if it's not money, then it's things like a sense of adventure or fun. In that case, real life will intrude. People cut back on hobbies during hard times.

Aside from the insanely unconstitutional (and morally questionable) idea, an organization that is struggling to attract people is not going to have more success by the raising the standard. Especially not when the reward isn't money.... It's an extra vote. In a country where voter turnout is...

That sounds cool until you realize that accessing that cool could mean giving up real career opportunities. And people don't generally trade hobbies for career opportunities. Especially not in today's cost of living environment. Your proposed appeal is basically only good for college...

Rumint around Ottawa says there are major changes coming to pay and benefits. Notable amongst what I have heard. 1) Back to 20 yrs to qualify for pension. So they can encourage people are the end of the 12 yr mark of their first engagements to keep going till 20 yrs. 2) More generous pensions...

Some people refuse to have perspective on how young and working class people live and are struggling and seem insistent on making sure enlisted in the CAF are in the same bind. All to live in the fantasy that the Reg F is bloated and irrelevant instead of the reality that the Reg F is largely...

Similarly for Peterborough between Toronto and Ottawa. Being an hour from both cities downtown core by HSR will bring a massive influx of dual six figure yuppies.

Those branch lines were from era when car ownership was lower and rural populations were relatively higher. Populations (and jobs) are more concentrated in the large urban agglomerations and those have their own transit. And GO is basically slowly working towards restoring or even exceeding...

Usually for business or family.

If we're going down this path, most roads don't pay for themselves. There's literally no justification for anything above gravel roads outside of core urban areas. Not even most suburban residential streets can justify having paved roads. Their taxes don't actually cover lifecycle costs...

The retiree club on fully indexed pensions here: "We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas." I think the retirees should give up inflation indexing. Just like the troops they want to throw under the proverbial bus.

Europe is a big place. Where exactly are you driving? Also, in Europe, the busiest HSR are between major cities, that are just as connected by proper expressways as our own cities. The difference? Tolls. They are usually high enough that a single occupant roadtrip isn't going to be cheaper...

WestJet and Porter should be the most concerned about HSR.

Not sure what the point of this is. The business case for Calgary-Edmonton isn't built on Red Deer-Calgary commuters. Also, Red Deer's last census population was about 100k. Not sure where you are getting a million from. Even Calgary and Edmonton aren't the huge metros Canadians imagine they...

There's a lot of discussion in here about how many cars would get taken off. That's not how HSR works. There's two kinds of travelers: 1) Time sensitive. These are the people who are flying today. And half the time these people aren't even paying their own fare. Work is usually paying...

Agree on political value. But that does come with a price. The Corridor from London to Montreal is populated enough that any HSR line would be operationally profitable, even if it can't pay back the capital cost. VIA actually breaks even on these portions of the Corridor today with the...

The best indicator of demand used in a lot of transport planning is the gravity model. Multiply the catchment population of the stations and divide by the square of the distance between the stations. Add it up for every station pair on a corridor and you get an estimate of demand. This model...

Finally moving past the assertion that acknowledging losses is succumbing to Pakistani propaganda. And now they are claiming lessons learned. Wonder how credible that is.

We don't need all 1200 km covered in one go. And nobody in the world has built a rail network like that. It's a weird Canadian obsession with everybody getting a piece at the same time. Start with the highest demand segments and move down the list. It should actually take 20 years to build...

Bets on whether we get another pay raise below inflation? Stay in and watch your buying power erode. Retire and you get an inflation protected pension and can go make even more elsewhere. They must really want every skilled and experienced person to leave.